unincorporated community
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Minnesota
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Minnesota's 1st congressional district
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Brad Finstad
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Senate
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Bill Weber
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House
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District 22B, represented by Republican
Rod Hamilton
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Bergen at one time had a general store, which closed in the 1970s, a meat locker, which is still open, Bergen Meats, a feed and seed (closed in the 1970s), a bar which is now a nice little steak house, a gas station which closed in the late 1960s and there was a one-room schoolhouse (later Christiana Town Hall) just down the road, which was just recently torn down. There are still about half a dozen houses or so there.